I dont know how much I am understanding from this discussion, but I will give my little contribution.. Today I have a feel of 11.4, 12.1 and 12.2 appliances built with Susestudio all using some alternative repositories to get alternative versions of KDE, YAST, Samba.. The thing is that OpenSuse (different from other distro) is very flexible and even if you have a 12.2 with KDE4.8 you can simple add the KDE4.9 repository to get a 12.2 with KDE4.9 that is what most of Rolling Release fans want applications and desktop updated in the last version. In this way the "base" will keep "stable". Maybe OpenSuse can be broken in just 1 small distro and people can add repos that with software versions that they want thx, sauLo On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Bryen M Yunashko <suserocks@bryen.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 18:43 +0200, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
I don't think it's trolling, I think it's a legitimate idea and it has been brought up before.
We have essentially two main target user groups of openSUSE: people who want something solid and stable (for servers or home systems). These are the folks running 11.4 or 11.1 even, still.
Then we have people who want the latest and greatest. They run tumbleweed and/or have lots of OBS repo's.
I still feel we would do both groups more justice with more emphasis on tumbleweed and a 1-year release cycle.
There is some validity to this idea. I fully admit that I purposely am not one of those who is willing to go out and convince their neighbors and grandmothers and everyone else to install openSUSE on their home machines. I'll advocate to the masses, but not to the individuals.
Two reasons: One) I don't want to be the support guy everyone calls all the time to fix their computers. I remember this very well back in my Windows days when every friend of mine seemed to drop off their computer at my house to work on. And Two) the frequency of releases means I'd be kept pretty busy keeping their systems updated.
Spreading to once-a-year release would alleviate the second concern for many who wish to advocate openSUSE without becoming a full-time free technician for family and friends.
The 1-year+Tumbleweed idea may just be the perfect solution for many people. It may also free us up as a Project to focus on promoting other benefits of openSUSE beyond just the distro. We do a pretty piss-poor job of promoting things like OBS, OpenQA, etc. They just don't get the limelight like distro does.
Bryen
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